Ibibio language

Ibibio
Usem Ibibio
Native toNigeria
RegionAbia State, Akwa Ibom State, Rivers State, Cross River State
EthnicityIbibio
Native speakers
L1: 6.3 million (2020)[1]
L2: 4.5 million (2013)[1]
Latin
Nsibidi
Language codes
ISO 639-3ibb
Glottologibib1240
An Ibibio speaker, recorded in the United Kingdom.

Ibibio is the native language of the Ibibio people of Nigeria, belonging to the Ibibio-Efik dialect cluster of the Cross River languages. The name Ibibio is sometimes used for the entire dialect cluster. In pre-colonial times, it was written with Nsibidi ideograms, similar to Igbo, Efik, Anaang, and Ejagham. Ibibio has also had influences on Afro-American diasporic languages such as AAVE words like buckra which come from the Ibibio word mbakara and in the Afro-Cuban tradition of abakua.

  1. ^ a b Ibibio at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon

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